Landsat derived shapefiles for reclaimed areas in 112 large lakes in the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River during the past five decades

This dataset obtained from 30-m Landsat satellite data includes shapefiles of Aquaculture zone, Agricultural/build-up land and Natural water of 112 large lakes in middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River Basin in every three-year interval (1973, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2018), which could be used to investigate the reclamation scale and land-use change of lakes water area during the past 40 years.

The explanation of files provided: ABL: shapefiles for Agricultural/build-up land AZ: shapefiles for Aquaculture zone NW: shapefiles for Natural water Landsat_image_time.xlsx: The time records of Landsat images used to delineate shapefile in each year for different path/rows.